On the accuracy of generalized fokker-planck transport equations in tissue optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-241

  Phillips, Kevin G ^a   Lancellotti, Carlo ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FORWARD SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

BACK-SCATTERED; DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; GREENSTEIN PHASE FUNCTION; LARGE-ANGLE SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; RELATIVE ERRORS; SCATTERING OPERATORS; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 60849133341     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000229     Document Type: Article

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